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Post by magellan on Aug 28, 2009 16:31:13 GMT
Well we had about 3 weeks of decent (that means hot) summer weather this year. I suspect the recent tropical storm may have something to do with this, but it barely reached 70 degF this week, and is slated to be 65 or less until mid-week, including night temps dipping into the 30's.
On the other hand, traditionally this type of weather does not rear its ugly until well after Labor Day (first Monday of Sept.) weekend, the last blast of summer heat fun. Irrespective of tropical storms, I can't recall the last year in this area with such low temps for late August.
Hpefully this is not a shadow of things to come this winter.
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Post by byz on Aug 29, 2009 10:17:55 GMT
This morning I saw a Robin (bird) on my clothes line!
In the UK there is an old wives tale that the earlier you see one the harder the Winter will be!
(not that I actually believe this as Robins are always about!)
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Post by radiant on Aug 29, 2009 12:02:10 GMT
Autumn on the way at 61N. Some trees red or yellow. Silver birch still green. Overnights about 8 to 14, highs 21 24. Summer officially ends for all Finland end of september. June and July were below normal for last 40 years. August probably under too - much colder here than last few years. I think most finns will agree that it has got warmer in Finland in the last decades, but since the snow brightens our environment and brings a kind of magic even for older Finns, lack of snow and darkness and relative misery have not been welcomed by many. I know myself i experience joy when it snows - but whether this is a throw back to fun times on the South of England Coast making igloos and snowmen as a child in the 1960's where it was ok with mum to go outside in snow but not in rain or something genetic or pathological i am not sure
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Post by astrodragon on Sept 1, 2009 12:09:36 GMT
Normally (in central-south UK), we see the big garden spiders wander into the house around the end of septenber/early october. Until then, they are happy outside eating, not getting too cold or flooded out.
This year we had 2 indoors end of August. Never seen them come in so early...
(OK, by Oz standards these spiders probably arent so big, but they still have bodies up to 1/2" long...in fact, they are so heavy I've watched with some amusement their attemps to climb a wall and keep falling off because they are too fat... ;D
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Post by lyrch75 on Sept 1, 2009 14:01:10 GMT
Had time to just look around while at a friend's house this weekend. His house and garage are on top of one of the higher hills in the area, so you get a nice view over about 10% of the county. I spotted a great number of trees that are starting to show their autumn color changes. Not bright pretty deciduous colors yet, but the step between green and that. He said he started noticing it about a week earlier, than my visit. About 2-3 weeks earlier than normal for the change.
NE Ohio. Twenty Five miles south of Youngstown.
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 1, 2009 16:26:52 GMT
Yes there are similar signs of color changes in the trees in Virginia. But then it was 48F here this morning it actually felt autumnal.
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Post by stranger on Sept 1, 2009 16:33:03 GMT
The sap is going down and the leaves have just started to change at 89W and 80 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. 62 this morning, and at 11:30 it is still cool in the shade.
My employees were talking about "October weather" a few minutes ago.
Stranger
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Post by jimcripwell on Sept 1, 2009 18:08:04 GMT
The maples in Ontario obviously did not get the memo. Things look absolutely normal for 1st September.
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Post by jeroen on Sept 1, 2009 20:30:02 GMT
First leaves are getting brown in the Netherlands. I voted for Any area not included above because it is western europe. Maybe next time you can split europe in North, west, mediteranian and east.
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Post by byz on Sept 2, 2009 13:11:29 GMT
Well here in the southern UK Autumn turned up on September 1st. Much cooler and rainy today. Yesterday I went out to pick elderberries and they've already withered Tree leaves are turning yellow, this is very early! Much as I love Autumn (my favorite season) I would like some sunny days in September. Given the continued Solar minimum I wonder if this winter something wicked this way comes (a real Hale winter).
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Post by byz on Sept 2, 2009 20:19:01 GMT
A real Autumnal system has blown in from the Atlantic and is dumping loads of rain down in the Southeast of the UK.
It's one of the evenings to batten down the hatches (if it was a month later we'd have the the woodburner on!)
The strong winds turn up in the morning !
This is the wettest 2nd September I can remember (even worse than 1st September 2000 when we had our conservatory built and discovered all the leaks!).
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Post by byz on Sept 3, 2009 6:44:15 GMT
Wow what a windy night (leftover from a tropical storm), just went for an early morning walk and it feels just like Autumn, it even smells like Autumn. A lot of leaves blown down quite a few trees starting to change colour and a few degrees lower temperature. The sea temperatures in the mid-north atlantic are below the norm but that is nothing compared to the seas off labrador! weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
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Post by jeroen on Sept 3, 2009 23:46:55 GMT
Lots of thunderstorms and windgusts in the Netherlands. Next week back to summer temp.
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Post by youngmg on Sept 5, 2009 23:34:55 GMT
Where I live in New Hampshire the oak trees have dropped acorns in numbers far exceeding anything I can remember. In speaking with my elderly neighbors they have said that they've never seen anything like it. The acorns carpeted my lawn so thickly that I had to rake them off before mowing the lawn this afternoon. I have never had to do that before.
Perhaps the bumper crop of acorns is the trees response to reduced solar output caused by the current ongoing minimum.
In any event the old timers here are saying this is an indication that we're in for a long and brutal winter.
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Post by woodstove on Sept 6, 2009 0:25:27 GMT
In Austin our long spell of 100-degree weather has ended.
An unheated pool that I use has cooled palpably in the last 10 days.
The berries on the China-berry trees are turning yellow and just starting to fall.
While the current weather conditions (we flirted with 90 degrees Fahrenheit today) would feel like an unbearable heat wave to most of our UK posters, to those of us who've just lived through the summer we've lived through one thing is clear: Autumn is here.
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